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Comment on Wheeler Dealers by Ray https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/wheeler-dealer/#comment-2423
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:37:31 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=5088#comment-2423Quite the mechanic! Pull the engine to fix an oil pan leak?? LMAO
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Comment on Top 10 Reasons For Comey Firing by Autumn Cote https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/top-10-reasons-for-comey-firing/#comment-2421
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 08:43:15 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=18399#comment-2421Would it be OK if I cross-posted this article to WriterBeat.com? There is no fee; I’m simply trying to add more content diversidty for our community and I thought this was well-written. I’ll be sure to give you complete credit as the author. If “OK” please let me know via email.

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Comment on Arizona Birkenstock Birko-Flor Review by ribbie https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/arizona-birkenstock-birko-flor-review/#comment-2405
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:52:49 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=14356#comment-2405 They have held up well. I wear them everyday around the house mostly. The soles have shown little wear. The cork is a little dry but not peeling. I haven’t oiled them. Under the straps, some of the felt fibers have begun to flay, and I’ve pulled those off – small threads but there is plenty left to last years. They are nicely worn in and extremely comfortable. Great sandal. Go for it.
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Comment on Arizona Birkenstock Birko-Flor Review by Nathan Bennett https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/arizona-birkenstock-birko-flor-review/#comment-2404
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:42:19 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=14356#comment-2404How have the Birko-Flor’s held up the past year? Looking at buying a pair this weekend.
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Comment on Top 7 Beatles Album by andrewgodsell https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/top-7-beatles-album/#comment-2265
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:22:34 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=15430#comment-2265Reblogged this on andrewgodsell.
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Comment on Hillary needs Bernie’s support by ribbie https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/hillary-needs-bernies-support/#comment-2216
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 23:41:50 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=13662#comment-2216I wouldn’t call being one of only a few Independents and the only self-described (democratic) socialist in Congress as being pragmatic. Nor would I call insisting on a single payer health care system any more pragmatic than the Republicans voting to repeal it time and again (something like 70 separate votes) particularly when they had nothing to replace it with. And I’m sorry, single payer would not fly and would have doomed health care reform – Obamacare was the practical compromise. He doesn’t seem to get that people don’t want to pay high taxes for “better” cradle to grave services like in Finland. He doesn’t seem to understand that we live in a capitalist society for better or worse. He’d like to dismantle capitalism but it ain’t going to happen certainly not in this election cycle and not in his life time. He is talking about a populous revolution, which also doesn’t strike me as pragmatic except in one regard – campaign finance reform. BS (I use the initials affectionately) perhaps not even intentionally, has proven that big money can’t necessarily buy an election. He’s done just fine with the 27 dollar contribution from millions of Americans. Notice that the mostly idiotic superpacs have failed to buy establishment delegates or crush Trump’s candidacy. Citizens United vs. FTC may prove not to have been so ruinous after all although it should be overturned and hope that it will be soon.

Bernie may be well-liked on both sides, but this did not translate to reaching across the aisle and getting something done in 2015. See my recent twitter posts below:

Wribbie ‏@wribbie Mar 14

Bernie was the only senator in 2015 who sponsored more than 10 bills to have 0 bipartisan co-sponsors for any of them.

govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2015/senate/leadership … Bernie ranked 96th in ability to get co-sponsors for his bills in 2015.

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Comment on Hillary needs Bernie’s support by Invisible Mikey https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/hillary-needs-bernies-support/#comment-2215
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 20:33:59 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=13662#comment-2215Despite backing Sanders right now, I’ll have no problem voting for HRC if she wins the nomination. But I have strong objection to this section of the article, which is factually incorrect and provably false:

“For the record, he is notorious for rarely compromising in Congress which is the basis for governance in a democracy. He is as well known for his failure to seek or attract bipartisan support for legislation he has put forth or to support moderate legislation. In fact, he and Cruz are on opposite extremes of the ideological spectrum and have done very little in their careers to help break the gridlock on capital hill and have actually, in many ways, contributed to it with purist and angry views.”

Sanders has been in Congress since 1990, and never joined either major party. That limited his opportunity to sponsor and co-sponsor bills. He still has sponsored or co-sponsored 6,000+ bills, many of which went into the same GOP committee vortex where bills from Democrats get “disappeared”. (https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033)

So, by thinking out of the box, he found another way to make things happen and advance progressive goals through law – writing amendments. Sanders has written more changes into more bills that are now law than any other current member of either the House or Senate.

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Comment on Ask Brody the GOPbot by Life With The Top Down https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/ask-brody-the-gopbot/#comment-2119
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:39:49 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=12987#comment-2119I would have welcomed Brody during that circus I witnessed last night.
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Comment on Living Free of Global Warming and Climate Change by jo780 https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/living-free-of-global-warming-and-climate-change/#comment-2106
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:17:50 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=12904#comment-2106Reblogged this on Dugi Game Guides.
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Comment on A gallon of anything probably not too healthy by Life With The Top Down https://ribbie.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/a-gallon-of-anything-probably-not-too-healthy/#comment-2103
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:07:25 +0000http://ribbie.wordpress.com/?p=12887#comment-2103When it comes to NetFlix I’m pretty sure I have surpassed a gallon and went right to a vat of everything.
As for this guy, being compromised by diabetes probably didn’t help the situation.
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